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8 members Latest Activity: Feb 13, 2014 Clojure is a programming language that shares the powerful meta-programming facilities of Lisp, has an agent-based approach to concurrency like…
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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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AWS recently announced CDK Mixins, a new AWS CDK feature that lets developers add reusable capabilities like security, monitoring, and configuration to AWS resources. Mixins work across different construct types, making infrastructure code more flexible and reusable.
By Renato Losio
Google recently announced that WebMCP is entering origin trials in Chrome 149. The new WebMCP standard proposal lets sites expose tools (e.g., JavaScript functions and HTML forms) to in-browser AI agents, which can thus reliably simulate user actions instead of resorting to possibly expensive (e.g., on-screen reading) and often unreliable guesswork (e.g., DOM scraping).
By Bruno Couriol
Google has announced the Google Colab CLI, a command-line tool that allows developers and AI agents to interact with remote Colab runtimes directly from a local terminal.
By Daniel Dominguez
Slack modernized its data platform by replacing SSH based execution in Amazon EMR pipelines with a REST driven orchestration layer called Quarry. The migration covered 700 plus Airflow operators, improving security, reliability, and observability while eliminating direct SSH access across production clusters and enabling a server side job lifecycle model.
By Leela Kumili
Google's Angular team has released a repository called angular/skills, focusing on Agent Skills that enhance AI coding agents' ability to write modern Angular code. The repository includes skills for generating code and scaffolding applications, reinforcing current Angular conventions. It serves as a snapshot, aiming to improve AI suggestions by providing updated context.
By Daniel Curtis
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